Examples of polyhedron in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Euler implicitly assumed his polyhedra were convex, meaning a line segment joining any two points stayed completely within the polyhedron. — quantamagazine.org, 26 Jan. 2021 This polyhedron is a classic prism made from professional-grade optical crystal glass. — Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2019 The 20th-century mathematician Aleksandr Aleksandrov proved that for every two-dimensional polygon, there is one unique way of folding it to form a 3-D polyhedron. — Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2017 And the circle packing proof tells you that there’s a polyhedron that has all its edges tangent to a sphere. — Quanta Magazine, 19 Mar. 2018 The printer cranks out up to 150 polyhedra each year – everything from models of protein crystallography to Mars' topography. — Stacey Smith Lang, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2001

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